• Increasing concerns about social problems in Mill Woods and lack of facilities
• Population in Mill Woods approached 30,000 residents
• Major road construction on 76th Ave from 39th St to 44A St, 92 Ave from 34th St to 50th St, Parsons road from 25th Ave to 27th Ave, Whitemud Drive between Calgary Trail and 99th St, and 75th St, from 51st Ave to just south of Wagner Road

1979

• Plan for public and separate high school and two public junior high schools on one site with the MillWoods Recreation Centre, a playing field and parking lot approved
• Pipeline explosion March 2 11:55 am

1980

• Lot values fell in Mill Woods due to high interest rates

1983

• MCARFA opened Mill Woods golf course on former city dump

1985

• Perception in some parts of Edmonton that Mill Woods had become a ghetto

1987

• Tornado hit parts of Mill Woods

1987

• 72% of Mill Woods residents said it was the most appealing Edmonton neighbourhood; 57% of Edmonton residence said the least appealing

1988

• Grey Nuns Hospital opened

1991

• City earned $185M on sale of Mill Woods land

1992

• Mill Woods Town Centre opened

1994

• Mill Woods threatened to split from the Edmonton Federation of Community Leagues over Rec Centre ice time
• Rally of 15,000 to save Grey Nuns the largest protest in Edmonton since the hunger marches drew more than 10,000 to the legislature in 1932

Information compiled as part of the Living Local Project, lead by Ground Zero Productions.

Funding for this project provided by the Mill Woods Presidents' Council, the 12 Community Leagues in South East Edmonton, Alberta Historical Resources Foundation, Edmonton Heritage Council and the Edmonton Arts Council.

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The MWPC performs as a forum that acts as a unified body of the Community Leagues and their 120,000 residents. Established in 1987, the MWPC is a volunteer based organization that strives to make Mill Woods and the Meadows the place of choice to live, work and play.